Cell

NASHVILLE — She struggled through the night as she had so many times before, restless from sickle cell pain that felt like knives stabbing her bones. When morning broke, she wept at the edge of her hotel-room bed, her stomach wrenched in a…

Bess Rattray, 54, a writer and volunteer emergency medical technician, grew up in East Hampton and now lives near the village’s main business district. Ms. Rattray’s cellphone frequently fails in her own home, forcing her into the front…

Bess Rattray, 54, a writer and volunteer emergency medical technician, grew up in East Hampton and now lives near the village’s main business district. Ms. Rattray’s cellphone frequently fails in her own home, forcing her into the front…

Dr. Julie Kanter, a hematologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and director of the university’s adult sickle cell clinic, reviewed medical records of 5,347 children at 28 medical centers large and small, including academic…

In May 1979, Los Angeles pathologists accused the death of Jerry Eugene Wright Jr., a 20-year-old black man who police officers had mistaken for a drug user, of "massive intravascular sickness." In fact, he was the victim of a violent…

Just weeks after promising sickle cell disease gene therapy appeared to hit a roadblock, the outlook for treatment is now looking brighter. Preliminary data suggesting it could cause cancer has not held up.In gene therapy, scientists…

Just as a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease appeared to be on the rise, the company that developed the treatment discovered that two patients now have cancer and stopped the study.One patient treated five and a half years ago…